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Iran and its militia ally Hezbollah are training, arming and financing a force
of tens of thousands of Syrian fighters to keep alive the beleaguered regime
of Bashar al-Assad, according to a senior Israeli intelligence officer.

As Syrian rebels close in on the country’s main cities and military
installations, Major-General Aviv Kochavi, the head of Israeli Military
Intelligence, also claimed that the Syrian leader had made “advanced
preparations” to use chemical weapons but had not given the order to use
them.

“The damages of the imminent fall of Syria are very high for both Iran and
Hezbollah. Iran is losing